BERKELEY – A special meeting of the Township Council will be held tonight at 5 p.m. to appoint members of a committee to transition the South Seaside Park section of town to Seaside Park.
Although the meeting starts at 5 p.m., the first order of business is to enter into a closed session. Once the governing body exits the private session, they will choose committee members. There are also portions of the meeting dedicated to comments from elected officials and the public, but there are no other items on the agenda.
After many years of discussion and court battles, the section of Berkeley between Seaside Park and Island Beach State Park was allowed to leave, and Seaside Park is in the process of annexing them.
Part of the rules governing annexation is that Seaside Park needs to pick three people and Berkeley needs to pick three people. Those six will sit down and hash out what needs to be done financially for this process.
While all of the people’s homes are annexed, there are properties owned by Berkeley that Seaside Park needs to buy. Additionally, Seaside Park will have to take on a portion of any debt that Berkeley incurred for projects that benefitted South Seaside Park.
The meetings are held in town hall at 627 Pinewald Keswick Road.
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